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I Want to be a Better Presenter,
But I Doubt If . . .
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I doubt if you’ll read all of these doubts -
especially the last one!
I doubt if I’ll ever get any better at presenting.
I doubt if they’ll be interested in anything I have to say.
I doubt if practicing would make a difference.
I doubt if reading books and blogs on public speaking
would help me improve my presentations.
I doubt if video taping my presentation would help me improve my delivery.
I doubt if having a digital recorder to capture ideas is worth the investment.
I doubt if joining Toastmasters is a good idea. Read More→
The List!
Distractions and Potential Problems
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Expecting the unexpected is the first step.
‘Stuff’ Happens!
And when it happens during your presentation, the effect could be the audience won’t GET IT!.
Having your audience GET IT! is the goal of all communication; written, spoken or visual.
First: Have a list:
‘What to Double-Check and What Could Go Wrong’
Next: Work you way thru the list, fixing what needs to be fixed and having plans for ‘what could happen’.
Here’s The List. Read More→
Personal Presentation Coaching
Posted by: | CommentsProfessionals Have Coaches – Amateurs Don’t. 
If You’ve Been Asked, or Want to:
- Give a Presentation
- Deliver a Speech
- Present an Award
- Accept an Award
- Facilitate a Meeting
- Give a Toast
- Deliver a Eulogy
I can help You make that Important Presentation – with “No Sweat!”
I’ve worked with everyone from doctors and lawyers to students and auditors.
I know you can be a better presenter and I’ll teach you how!
From Introduction to a Strong Opening to a Powerful Closing – I’ll work with you to be certain the audience GETS IT!
If your important presentation is going to involve PowerPoint, I’ll help develop one that reinforces and doesn’t confuse, your message.
We discuss, and work on:
- Developing a Presentation
- Practicing a Presentation
- Delivering a Presentation
- Verbal Communication
- Vocal Enunciation and Pronunciation
- Voice Projection
- Voice Inflection
- Vocal Cadence
- Pausing, as an element of Verbal Communication
- Non-Verbal Communication
- Eye Contact
- Facial Expressions
- Gestures
- Posture
- Body Movement
- Verbal Communication
- The Fear of Public Speaking
- Why most people have it
- Techniques to lessen it
- Speaking and Presentation Tips
- How to handle a Q&A Session
- PowerPoint / Keynote Slide Presentations (I’m really good at this!)
- Taking the ‘Temperature’ of the audience
- Handing Handouts
- Humor
- Props
- Techniques for getting the audience to remember your message
- Mind Mapping
- A visual, non-linear technique that makes developing, practicing and delivering a presentation much easier.
- What to avoid in a good presentation
- And much more!
If you’re already a good speaker, I’ll help you become a better presenter.
When is that next presentation? Let’s get started!
Contact me and we’ll get the ball rolling!
Fred E. Miller 314-517-8772
Fred@NoSweatPublicSpeaking.com
Coaching and Consulting Services
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A Speaker’s Template – SEE The BIG PICTURE
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Develop, Practice and Deliver Your Presentation
A Speaker's Template - Click to Enlarge!
This Speaker’s Template gives you the Big Picture. Your entire speech is on a single page.
It’s a great visual to ‘See’ how the Content of a Speech should be constructed and Read More→
When You Speak,
Don’t Jingle or Deliver Other Distractions!
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“Did you ever spend a lot of time on a ship?”
That was the question I asked the speaker I was evaluating at a Toastmaster Meeting.
The reason I asked, was that Michael, the person I was critiquing, possessed the habit of rocking from side to side during his speech. He wasn’t aware of it, but it was so bothersome I had to mention it.
Michael, like all Toastmasters, was attending the meeting to improve his presentations. Just telling him what he did correctly wasn’t going to help him get better. I certainly did mention the positives of his presentation, but ‘sandwiched in’ the ‘room for improvement’ advice.
Whether it’s rocking back and forth, jingling change and keys in pockets, or Read More→
Lessons from a Street Performer
Posted by: | CommentsThis one was O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G!
I was in Boston last week and had an opportunity to do some sightseeing.
Around the famous Faneuil Hall Marketplace there were several street performers.
They’re mostly very good.
One was O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G!
The Content of his performance was juggling.
The Great Delivery was what set him apart from the majority of street performers.
I was reminded of Delivery Lessons all great speakers should emulate.
Here they are: Read More→
BLOG!
It will make you a Better Speaker!
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Blogging (Writing) and Speaking Go Hand-in-Glove.
They are both communication skills a speaker needs to continually sharpen.
Writing is a great way to develop, and make better, the content of your presentations.
The analogy is: “If you really want to learn about a subject – Teach It!
The same holds true for blogging.
I know the subject of Public Speaking and Presentations. I’m an expert in this field. I’ve practiced and studied it for years. However, each and every time I write a new blog Post, I add Read More→
Be ‘The Man in the Arena’!
TR’s Famous Speech – A Great Lesson!
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Be In the Arena – Not in the Crowd!
So you give your speech and stumble – BIG DEAL!
Remember what TR said . . .
It’s been a bit over 100 years since President Teddy Roosevelt gave his ‘Arena Speech’, but the message rings as true today as it did then.
The essence of that quote, from the longer talk Roosevelt gave that day (one of my favorites and placed at the end of this blog post), is that it is
far better to have tried and failed, then to have not tried at all.
The ‘crowd in the arena’ watches the battle, but doesn’t benefit as much as the individual actually in the arena – or at the lectern!
Those words are still a great reminder for anyone who needs to remember that life is full of Read More→
The ‘Show-Before-The-Show’
Warm up the Audience Before the Emcee Speaks!
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This does it for My audiences! What do You do?
This Slide Show and Music will be playing when people enter the room I’ll be speaking in.
What effect do you think it has on them? My thoughts are that it reminds many of them why they chose to attend. It preps them for the information I’m going to deliver. Read More→
I Get Ideas for My Presentations,
But Forget Them!
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Use a Digital Recorder to
Capture those thoughts ‘In the Moment!’
None of us have the great memories we wish we had.
We’re exercising, walking, driving or maybe just sitting at a coffee shop and an idea for a speech, or a story to make a point in one, comes to us. We don’t have a pen or paper handy, but we mentally promise ourselves to start working on it when we have the opportunity. Many times that doesn’t happen because we forget that great idea – Bummer!
Yoga teaches to be ‘Always present and In the Moment’. This makes great sense for speakers because what’s happening NOW might be potential material for a new presentation or a delivery technique to add to a speech already in your ‘portfolio’.
Great speakers always update their material and consider all the speeches and techniques they ‘own’ to be works in progress.
Too many ideas have gone unused because they haven’t been ‘recorded’ for future use. Read More→
